# Reading an Entry *The Stable, Mounts, Barding, and Mounted Combat for Exodus NDS. Source: https://exodusnds.com/sourcebooks/the-stable/reading-an-entry* ##### Riding Horse Hack, palfrey, rouncey, saddle horse
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3 / 2 / 1 / 2 / 2 / 1 30 300 Common Equine, Medium Swift, Temper 1
## The Fields **Scale** is size, on the scale of the core rules. A person is Scale 1. A horse is Scale 2, an elephant 3, a roc 4. A mount of Scale 1 is a small mount. **Speed** is the number of range bands the mount moves with one maneuver. A second number after "fly" or "swim" is its Speed in that element. **Wounds** and **Resistance** are the mount's own. Every mount in this book is an **Elite**: it tracks Wounds, converts Strain to Wounds one for one, and can suffer Critical Injuries. **Def** is Melee Defense and Ranged Defense. **Carry** is the Encumbrance the mount carries without slowing. Chapter 3 says what a rider counts for. **Characteristics** are Might, Agility, Intellect, Savvy, Willpower, and Charisma, in that order. **Travel** is miles covered in a day on a road. **Price** is for a healthy adult trained to the saddle, in the units of *The Fantasy Armory*. Chapter 6 prices other grades. A dash means it is not for sale. **Barding** names the mount's body plan and the heaviest barding it can wear: Light, Medium, or Heavy. **None** means it cannot be barded. See Chapter 7. **Attacks** are listed below the block, in the form the core rules use for adversaries. A mount with no attack kicks or bites for Damage 2, Crit 5, if cornered. **Traits** are defined below. ## Availability | Tag | Meaning | |:--|:--| | **Common** | Sold at any market town in country where the animal lives | | **Restricted** | Bred by particular houses, tribes, or stables, who choose their buyers | | **Military** | Schooled for war. Sold to those with a right to bear arms, or by those who took it from them | | **Rare** | Found in a few places, raised from the egg or the cub, or not sold at all | ## Traits | Trait | Effect | |:--|:--| | **Agile** | Add 1 Boon Die to Riding checks in tight spaces and around obstacles | | **Amphibious** | At home on land and in water. It needs no check to enter or leave the water | | **Armoured Hide** | The listed Resistance is the hide. The mount gains nothing from barding | | **Battle-Trained** | Schooled for war. It ignores Temper in ordinary combat, may attack when directed, and may charge. See Chapter 4 | | **Bonded** | It forms a bond quickly: halve the time in Chapter 6 | | **Bonded Only** | It carries only the rider it has bonded with. Anyone else must first succeed on a Hard Riding check each scene, and adds 2 Bane Dice to every Riding check | | **Climber** | It climbs steep rock, trees, or ice at Speed 1 with no check | | **Cold-Bred** | It ignores the travel penalty for snow and does not suffer from cold. In hot country its Travel is halved | | **Desert-Bred** | It treats desert as open country when travelling, and does not suffer from heat | | **Draft X** | It counts as X animals when pulling a vehicle | | **Echo Sense** | Darkness, smoke, fog, and murky water do not hinder it | | **Enduring** | Add 2 Boon Dice to checks for a forced march. It is not lamed by one | | **Flyer** | It flies. See Chapter 5 | | **Forest-Bred** | It ignores the travel penalty for forest | | **Hardy** | It lives on poor grazing: halve its upkeep outside towns. Add 1 Boon Die to its Fortitude checks | | **Hanger** | It roosts hanging and takes off only by dropping from a height | | **Horse Terror** | Ordinary mounts fear it. Riders of mounts that are not Battle-Trained add 1 Bane Die to Riding checks within Short range of it | | **Keen Senses** | Add 1 Boon Die to its rider's Perception and Readiness checks. **Keen Sight** is the same by day at any distance | | **Leaper** | Once a round it clears a gap or an obstacle up to Short range across with no check | | **Long Memory** | It remembers people. Add 2 Boon Dice to checks to handle it for anyone who has treated it well, and 2 Bane Dice for anyone who has not | | **Meat-Eater** | It cannot graze. Its upkeep is always paid, and in the wild it must be let hunt for two hours a day | | **Night Sight** | Darkness does not hinder it | | **Pack Animal** | Its Carry is 4 higher when it carries baggage and no rider | | **Plains-Bred** | Its Travel is not reduced in open country | | **Platform** | It can carry a howdah or a deck. See Chapter 8 | | **Shock Mount** | When it charges, its rider's charge bonus is 1 more damage | | **Slow** | It cannot be made to move more than one range band in a round, and it never wins a chase | | **Small Mount** | Built for small riders. A rider of ordinary size counts double against its Carry and cannot charge | | **Sprinter** | Once in an encounter it moves one extra range band with a maneuver | | **Steady** | Add 1 Boon Die to Riding checks to keep it under control | | **Stoop** | A flyer's dive. See Chapter 5 | | **Sure-Footed** | Add 1 Boon Die to Riding checks on narrow, steep, or broken ground. It is not knocked Prone by terrain | | **Sure Wing** | Add 1 Boon Die to Riding checks in wind, cloud, and close to cliffs | | **Surface Rider** | A swimmer that keeps its rider's head above water unless told otherwise | | **Swift** | Add 1 Boon Die to Riding checks in a chase | | **Swimmer** | It lives in water. See Chapter 5 | | **Temper X** | Add X Bane Dice to Riding checks to control it when it is frightened, hurt, or in a fight. See Chapter 3 | | **Tracker** | It follows a trail by scent. Add 2 Boon Dice to Survival checks to track while riding it | | **Wader** | It ignores the travel penalty for marsh | Traits that belong to one animal are explained in its entry.